Arizona, 2025Heat in Arizona, May 21 to 24, 2025
May 21 to 24, 2025 · NWS TWC · 2 events in 2 counties and zones
High temperatures in Southeastern Arizona were 3 to 8 degrees above normal, however overnight low temperatures were near normal, causing Low HeatRisk. The Pima County Medical Examiner found that the cause of death for two individuals, one in McNeal and one in Tucson, had heat as a contributing factor to their deaths.
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- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
High temperatures in Southeastern Arizona were 3 to 8 degrees above normal, however overnight low temperatures were near normal, causing Low HeatRisk. The Pima County Medical Examiner found that the cause of death for two individuals, one in McNeal and one in Tucson, had heat as a contributing factor to their deaths.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 21, 2:12 AM MST, 7 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 2:12 AM MST, 7 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Heat, Eastern Cochise County Below 5000 Feet
- When
- May 21, 10:00 AM MST to 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Eastern Cochise County Below 5000 Feet forecast zone
- Deaths
- 0 direct, 1 indirect
- Reported by
- County Official
- Coordinates
- 31.880, -109.751 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High temperatures in Southeastern Arizona were 3 to 8 degrees above normal, however overnight low temperatures were near normal, causing Low HeatRisk. Douglas International Airport reached a high temperature of 95 degrees. The Pima County Medical Examiner found that the cause of death for an individual in McNeal had heat as a contributing factor to their death.
Heat, Tucson Metro Area
- When
- May 24, 10:00 AM MST to 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Tucson Metro Area forecast zone
- Deaths
- 0 direct, 1 indirect
- Reported by
- County Official
- Coordinates
- 32.097, -111.790 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High temperatures in Southeastern Arizona were 1 to 3 degrees above normal, causing Low HeatRisk. Douglas International Airport reached a high temperature of 96 degrees. The Pima County Medical Examiner found that the cause of death for an individual in Tucson had heat as a contributing factor to their death.
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, May 21, 20253 events
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- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, May 21, 20252 events
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- Waterspout in Gulf of Mexico, May 21, 20251 event
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1261867, 1261868.